Intel Core i5-12490F vs Intel Core i7-12650H

Core i5-12490F vs Core i7-12650H benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-12650H performs better than the Core i5-12490F. Despite this, the Core i5-12490F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-12650H has significantly more cores than the Core i5-12490F. Indeed, the Core i7-12650H has 10 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-12490F. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12490F. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-12490F has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-12650H. Despite this, the Core i7-12650H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-12650H outputs less heat than Core i5-12490F thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core i5-12490F has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-12650H. Despite this, the Core i7-12650H has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-12490F.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i5-12490F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.